Stories Behind the Records
Paul Chiddicks, Barbara at ProjectkinA journey through family history, storytelling, and discovery, exploring my own stories and the stories that continue to capture my imagination.
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The Village That Never Came Home
There are places that make you stop because they’re beautiful.
Then there are places that make you stop because they’re quiet.
Stories Behind the Records is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, conside...
The Chiddicks Observer Edition 63
This week’s Observer is about looking beyond the record. Birth certificates, census returns and parish registers may tell us when people lived, but they rarely tell us how they lived. Across this week’s collection, our writers explore memor...
What Will You Leave Behind?
We often think of heirlooms as treasured objects passed down through generations. An old watch. A family recipe. A faded photograph tucked inside a drawer.
They connect us with those who came before us and help keep family stories alive....
The Chiddicks Observer Edition 62
Genealogy is often described as the study of the past, but in truth it is equally about understanding ourselves. Every record, diary, photograph, letter, newspaper clipping, and family story offers more than evidence of a life once lived; i...
Fact or Fiction? How Genealogists Separate Truth from Error
A father’s name on a birth certificate, is that a fact?
Most people would instinctively say yes. After all, a birth certificate is an official document. It carries authority. It is treated as evidence. And anything recorded on it is usuall...
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Family history researcher and Family Tree Magazine columnist. I write the stories behind the records — the people, places and history that connect us all. Creator of The Chiddicks Observer on Substack. Full-time storyteller, part-time Lego builder.
I'm the "ringleader" for Projectkin.org. As a community, we capture, preserve, and share our stories in every conceivable form. We inspire and encourage one another in posts, events, and conversations.
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